eventhough i don't understand this cartoon to the full depth, i guess this is trying to say the growing access to online is giving the Chinese government (the conservative side), a tough time. China has been conservative since day-1 of its beginning. China always has been obsorbing, not expanding. they always kept issues with themselves. however, as the world is being interconnected, the Chinese people, who just found their way to communicate with outside the country, are following their natural instinct and socialising with other cyber community. of course, the Chinese government is worried that their traditional way of controling people is diminishing. it might be huge issue in china, because this can lead to uncountable cyber crimes, lack of security of individual identity. i guess they will have to spend alot of money to hire more people (out of millions) to win this game, and provide safer online environment for the growing number of bloggers...

China use‘weibo’and it has reached 200 million, half of internet users in China. The percentage raised around 200% every month. Chinese never trust too much about the media. They only trust themselves and they want to see things with their own eyes. 'Weibo''s functionalities are very convenient also its access speed.

In China, all different kinds of people use 'weibo', For example, my 'weibo' has 200 people I concern. Even middle-age woman selling vegetables in the open market, they use 'weibo' by phone. People use 'weibo' to write their lives, realistic thoughts, personal interests, food, places to play, and everything.You cant imagine before. Please check the truth before writing this cartoon. The media in China never has been so open, government can accept criticals, it is a way of people's power. It helps to improve the state and good-enriches life. If you know how to play, the emotions just like small Chinese new year every day, no matter good news or bad news. Because it is about your friend and social.

That is the problem with the Arab world, they have also an archetypical model of a Golden Past that lasted centuries, and extended from Morocco to Central Asia and Iran. Then they were invaded by the Mongols, then by the Turks that conquered most of the Arab world, and, when the Turk empire weakened, by the Western European nations. This "Caliphat" political model, with a society ruled by interpreters of the Khoran, is obviously useless now, as no one can, sanely, pretend to re-create the Caliphate. It now belongs to the Thousand and One Nights.

This the major difference with a Golden age China, the last one being the Ming Dinasty China, ruled by the Confucius teachings. This China is alive and well, becoming richer, stronger and happier.

Nevertheless in both models there is a strong ethical model for behavior, where the Government and People are both ruled by a superior Law. The Western societies don't know anything similar.

I really do not understand what the cartoon wants to express. Actually, the social network media is not so stronglly censored as showed in the cartoon. Since you could hear different voice, read firce comment, see heart-breaking picture about the negative side of the commnunist party, so it is not rational to past the bad image on the government.
Moreover, censorship is prevalent in the media and internet all over the countries, what you do not witness is not equivlant its distinction.
Finally, the real social network can not be replaced by the internet social network.

It seems like this comic is referring to how as more and more people gain access to the internet and blogs that it will be harder and harder for China to control it. Eventually this could lead to more irghts for the people.

I really do not understand what the cartoon want to express. Censorship is prevalant in the media in all countries and actually, the internet social media are not strongly controlled as displayed by the cartoon. You may read articles, see picture and read comment about the negatice side of commnunist party. It is much tolerant than before.
Moreover, the real social relationship is hard to be replaced by internet social relationship even if there are numerous device connect us to the internet.

Those social media users and micro bloggers like him are mostly nationalists against rescuing Europe or the other bunch of totalitarians who are frustrated at the government.

Zbigniew Brzezinski would tell you what the two different forms of totalitarianism were, and you would know that the conflict between the governemnt and those internet users would not always be favourable to the rest of the world.

@adriancast
You are right to say that Chinese officials are being overwhelmed by the growing number of micro-bloggers and social media users throughout the country. The police apparatus is far from being the replica of the Orwellian regime, party officials cannot realistically monitor everyone. Though the party holds some decisive asset which so far has served well its interests. It managed to keep the noose tightened around the people with a powerful deterrent: economic prosperity. Why would the Chinese rise against an administration that is successful in the bulk of possible fields. Economic growth has yet to stutter, national wealth benefits to a swelling middle-class, basic living standards are accessible to a wider share of the population, although unevenly, since socio-economic discrepancies linger between the wealthy eastern coast and the derelict inland country.
As long as the Party will maintain this environment highly propitious to uneventful mores and prosperity, I think that the clamors for freedom and democratic change are to remain patchy and fitful.

China has the largest population in the world and it seems nearly impossible to monitor millions of bloggers. This is exactly what the cartoon author is trying to illustrate. The Chinese government might tell people that they are going to start to crack down on social media users and micro-bloggers as a tactic to scare individuals, but the extent to the number of individuals outnumbers the amount of government officials monitoring these blogs and sites. The Chinese government is trying to tackle something that is not feasibly possible.

Demands for higher democratic standards, the same repeatedly worshiped by the West, will strike a more and more responsive chord in China as the access to online data is broadening. The Chinese ruling caste cannot spur the ongoing capitalist opening while heading against its package of associated principles -individualism, free enterprise and so on and so forth. This bulging contradiction is very likely to cripple the regime in the future, whose indoctrinated officialdom can easily eradicate the sporadic bursts of modernist zealots, but may grapple with more troubles against wider protestations.
Moreover, some argue that as long as China is showered with economic prosperity and rosy prospects of growth, people will not dare take arms against the regime. We have seen how China's trained officials managed the post-Arab-spring uprisings in Chinese provinces and clamped down systematically on derisory groups of activists. The job was pretty quick and the potential threat immediately quashed. However, China's expected prospects aren't as gleaming as they are for several years. Economic growth is projected to slacken dramatically, a graying population involves a complete overhaul -or the creation- of a the pension system for the elderly and the actual model of development -based on exports- also needs a revamp.

With this pile of difficulties waiting for China, I doubt that the actual model of authoritarian government could sustain damaging absences of result or economic slumps of large scale.
To be continued

@ Different thoughts, I was only comparing the spreading of thoughts, not the people. Chinese people have values that have stood the test of millenia. Their traditional social structures may seem strange to us Westerners but seem to always prevail given time. The Chinese seem to always have an ordered society whether in China or in business communities in the third world. The same cannot be said of the Arab world.

@wyoman, You are comparing apple to banana, middle eastern people naturally have more issues then china but they are also at least a century behind the china. If china wants to compare its status with middle eastern people and be happy, its their wish, but even in this comparison they are falling down

The authorities know well that it is impossible to monitor tens of millions of bloggers. No one can keep a secret in this time and day of multiple media ways of disseminating information in real time. There is no need to as there are no contentious social issues that will fire up a whole population to rebel. The law, or more likely an administrative order to curb "forbidden" topics, is to give teeth to government policies that laymen should not mess around with. One is to organize protest groups. You can blog anything you want. But you cannot call for a gathering to support your cause

In my experience Chinese use social media a lot more than western people, KAL doesn't know what he is "drawing about"! The fact that facebook is not used in China doesn't mean that there is no (better) chinese equivalent.